Senior Backend Engineer (GO, API Getaways)

📋 Description

• Senior Backend Engineer (GoLang) IC role focusing on gateway and routing components.
• Own subsystems end-to-end; drive architectural direction in your area.
• Design, build, and operate high-perf gateway components in Go.
• Collaborate with SRE, Infrastructure, and Platform teams for availability and observability.
• Deliver features end-to-end from design through production rollout.

🎯 Requirements

Must Have

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years backend development in Go with concurrency patterns
• Deep understanding of Go internals: scheduler, GC, runtime
• Strong systems programming foundation; below the application layer
• Deep network knowledge: TCP, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), WebSocket
• Applied cryptography: encryption, cert chains, key management
• Proven track record designing and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Kubernetes concepts and deployment patterns

Nice to Have

• Ruby familiarity (on Rails) – core is Ruby-based; integration points
• Familiarity with AI/LLM serving infra: model proxying, token metering
• Docker, container orchestration, and cloud infra (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Redis-based caching and pub/sub patterns
• Exposure to API gateway or service mesh internals (Envoy, Kong)
• Integration with REST/gRPC APIs at scale (throttling, retries, circuit breaking)
• Contributions to open-source projects

Soft Skills

• Comfortable working in a globally distributed team across timezones
• Strong written and spoken English for design discussions
• Full-cycle product delivery mindset: from problem framing to production
• Open to experimentation; pragmatic about adopting new technologies

(REQ ID: 2674)